... war era, and the men running such programs were willing to overlook their new hires' bloodstained resumes.. The newly-formed CIA first plunged into this cesspool in 1950 with Project BLUEBIRD, rechristened ARTICHOKE in 1951. To establish a cover story for this research, the CIA funded a propaganda effort designed to convince the world that the Communist Bloc had devised insidious new methods to re-shape the human will; the CIA's own efforts could therefore, if exposed, be explained as an attempt to 'catch up' with Soviet and Chinese work. The primary promoter of this 'line' was one Edward Hunter, a CIA contract employee operating under cover as a journalist (and ...

... Europe rebuilds with American money, buying American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the 'regulators' -- good old Irving Brown et al -- - a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the name of 'the communist threat'. This left revisionist thesis, specifically the wide-spread belief on the European Left that the shape of post-war unionism in Europe was largely down to the machinations of American agents like Irving Brown, is McShane's target. But he intends his narrow focus on the struggle within the international trade union movement to stand for ...

... . Working at the interface between commerce and intelligence, Shaw was appointed during the 1950s to the boards of two shadowy enterprises: Permindex and Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC). Freedom of Information searches and investigative journalism produced evidence that both Permindex and CMC were penetrated by the CIA and probably used for bank-rolling both operations and anti-Communist organisations overseas, especially in Europe. DiEugenio goes a step further and suggests that both could be linked to the 'Gladio' network set up in post-war Europe by local fascists, anti-Communists, and U.S . intelligence. That Garrison was correct about Shaw's biography gives credibility to the charge that it was Shaw, ...

... microwave/ELF radiation, are emerging with exactly the same claims as their counterparts in the USA and Europe. One is quoted as saying 'They controlled my laughter, my thoughts, and caused pain in various parts of my body. It all started in October 1985 after I had openly criticized the first secretary of the City Committee of the Communist Party. ' The article also reported victims hearing 'voices in the head' from 'microwave pulse radiation'. All these are familiar from U.S . and European victims. I have been sent a document from a Swede, Ossian Anderson, Box 71, 860 35 Soraker, Sweden. Mr Anderson makes allegations that are identical in ...

... never come across any of that before and it rang the bell. For the big puzzle about the Holocaust was explaining how people who lived in the same world as my parents, only a few hundred miles away, apparently post-Enlightenment Europeans, decided that it was a good idea to wipe out the Jews, gypsies, gays, communists et al. Then along came Pauwels and Bergier with the message: relax, do not adjust the set. The reason you can't understand the Nazis is they didn't live in the same world as you; that was the surface. And finally, with this fascinating research in the original German sources, we have a reliable guided tour ...

... haphazard; the enemy always gains; power, fame, money, and sex account for all'. Pipes finds the 'conspiracy mentality' very strange. But every belief Pipes attributes to it is true -- but not always. Therein lies the problem -- and the intellectual interest. Brian Crozier's views on the role of the Soviet Communist Party and KGB would certainly score on the first four of Pipes' list, but not the fifth. I score about 50% on Mr Pipes list. Appearances deceive -- yes, but only sometimes. Nothing is haphazard -- nonsense, of course, but in politics and international relations rather less is haphazard than the conventional ...

... and Adamson which the UVF men won with that most forceful, and final argument, a .45 calibre bullet! '. Brady speculates that further named individuals had incurred the 'displeasure of UVF Brigade Staff', and proferred his opinion that their lives and commitment to proletarian struggle -- they were members of an obscure Maoist sect, the Communist Party of England -- Marxist Leninist -- might soon be discontinued. (11) At the very least, this letter is tasteless, but such sentiments (expressed both publicly and privately) are not uncommon in Northern Ireland. Does this letter show, as Searchlight would have us believe, 'how closely he is linked with the ...

... received a letter warning me about Larry O'Hara from a correspondent who had seen the Searchlight piece. O'Hara had predicted to me that Searchlight would smear him. (7 ) This 'All Xs are really Ys' is a routine move in political warfare. Some of the Right always claimed that the Left, whatever their apparent differences, were all communists; some zionists claim that all anti zionists are anti Jewish. And so on. (8 ) A copy of one of his recent letters I have seen shows that Gable is still in the business of recycling smears. (9 ) The most detailed account of Young's activities in this period is Smear! pp. 224-8 ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 25) June 1993 Last | Contents | Next Issue 25 Moscow Gold: 'the Communist threat' in post-war Britain Robin Ramsay Since the Berlin Wall fell the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well known fronts. The only important news so far has been the confirmation that the Soviets were also funding communist parties around the world -- including the Communist Party of Great ...

... . Smith not only describes the sexual and political exploitation of the black Africans, his is the first such memoir I have seen in which the covert world is shown to play a significant part in colonial life. Smith portrays MI5 working with the Colonial Office, bugging, tapping, intercepting mail -- as well as producing inept anti-communist propaganda. Then as independence loomed, the Colonial Office/MI5 team were replaced by the Foreign Office/MI6 people. Smith's encounter with colonial corruption climaxes with his discovery that among his duties was election rigging for the British. 'I had been ordered during the first stage of the Independence Elections at State (Regional) Level in 1956 ...